Definitions for: Toll


[n] value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something; "the cost in human life was enormous"; "the price of success is hard work"; "what price glory?"
[n] a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
[v] ring recurrently; of bells
[v] ring slowly, of bells; "For whom the bell tolls"



Webster (1913) Definition: Toll, v. t. [L. tollere. See Tolerate.] (O. Eng. Law)
To take away; to vacate; to annul.


Toll, v. t. [See Tole.]
1. To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.

2. [Probably the same word as toll to draw, and at first
meaning, to ring in order to draw people to church.] To
cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and
uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell. ``The
sexton tolled the bell.'' --Hood.

3. To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to
ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend. --Shak.

Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour.
--Beattie.

4. To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.

When hollow murmurs of their evening bells Dismiss
the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells.
--Dryden.


Toll, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tolled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tolling.]
To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated
at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to
announce the death of a person.

The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. --Shak.

Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. --Pope.


Toll, n.
The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly
repeated.


Toll, n. [OE. tol, AS. toll; akin to OS. & D. tol, G.
zoll, OHG. zol, Icel. tollr, Sw. tull, Dan. told, and also to
E. tale; -- originally, that which is counted out in payment.
See Tale number.]
1. A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for
the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or
for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.

2. (Sax. & O. Eng. Law) A liberty to buy and sell within the
bounds of a manor.

3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for
grinding.

Toll and team (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a
market, and jurisdiction of villeins. --Burrill.

Toll bar, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats
at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers.

Toll bridge, a bridge where toll is paid for passing over
it.

Toll corn, corn taken as pay for grinding at a mill.

Toll dish, a dish for measuring toll in mills.

Toll gatherer, a man who takes, or gathers, toll.

Toll hop, a toll dish. [Obs.] --Crabb.

Toll thorough (Eng. Law), toll taken by a town for beasts
driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at
its cost. --Brande & C.

Toll traverse (Eng. Law), toll taken by an individual for
beasts driven across his ground; toll paid by a person for
passing over the private ground, bridge, ferry, or the
like, of another.

Toll turn (Eng. Law), a toll paid at the return of beasts
from market, though they were not sold. --Burrill.

Syn: Tax; custom; duty; impost.


Toll, v. i.
1. To pay toll or tallage. [R.] --Shak.

2. To take toll; to raise a tax. [R.]

Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll
thrice. --Chaucer.

No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our
dominions. --Shak.


Toll, v. t.
To collect, as a toll. --Shak.

Synonyms: cost, peal, price

See Also: death toll, fee, knell, ring, value

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